SYLVIA RUEPPELLI. 337 



[§ 1681. One. — Elveden, June 1856.] 

 [§ 1682. &>.— Elveden, 1857. "E.N." 



My brother's notes state these were from two nests, each containing five 

 eggs, and that on each he found the cock bird sitting.] 



[§ 1683. Three.— YXvQ^en. Year uncertain.] 



[§ 1684. Five.—'^i. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, 1864. From 

 Mr. Rowley. 



Mr. Rowley writes that this nest was in a whitethorn hedge, and that he 

 saw the bird.] 



[§ 1685. Yk-o.— Starston. Erom the late Mr. Scales's collection, 



1885. 



The box containing them was inscribed "Black Cap, Rev. W Whitear, 

 Starston " shewing that Mr. Scales had received them from one of the authors 

 of the 'Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds' (Trans. Linn Soc.xy. 

 pp 1-62). Some account of Mr. Whitear, who died 10 December, lb2b, 

 with extracts from his Calendar, will be found in the 'Transactions of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society ' (iii. pp. 231-262).] 



[^ 1686. i^o^^r.— Palma, Canary Islands, May 1893. Erom 

 Mr. S. B. Wilson.] 



SYLVIA RUEPPELLI, Terammck. 



[^ 1687. 0?;^.— Burnabat, near Smyrna, 1 May, 1887. Erom 

 Dr. Krliper, through Mr. Dresser, 1889. 



Taken in the hills by Dimitri Elevtheroglou. D- Kruper's -fes on ^he 

 habits of this species are recorded in the ' Journal fur Ornithologie for 1861 

 (p. 279) and 1875 (pp. 262, 263).] 



